1. Faith can move mountains… well it can certainly get us moving. Recall a time when you were full of self-doubt, skepticism about a project, or lacking trust in God. What was that like? Contrast this with times when you believed in yourself, or in the value of a project you had undertaken, or when your faith and trust in God was strong. What kind
Another challenging Gospel about how we see and treat the poor. Wealth is not the problem. The problem is how we use our riches. Amos is the champion of the poor and oppressed. He says there will be a day of reckoning for those who misappropriated their wealth. The is the story of the rich man in today’s Gospel. He showed no concern for the
Why is that so many people who are selfish and even dishonest do so much better in life than those with integrity? Could it be to do with the way we are wired? As human beings we have a primeval instinct for self-preservation. It would appear that self-preservation is a far more powerful a motivation than the motivation to be altruistic. In today’s gospel story
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Sunday 14th September Have you ever pondered why Christ, the pure embodiment of Love, had to endure the Cross? Could there have been another way? Perhaps the answer lies in the very nature of love. True love isn’t simply about joys and comforts; it’s also about sacrifices, about giving without counting the cost. The Cross, in its raw,
We hear a lot about calculating the cost of discipleship, but how many people actually sit down and do exactly that .... calculate the cost. We certainly do our calculations if we’re paying a visit to the bank manager for a loan. We certainly start calculating if we’re down to small change and there are two long weeks left to pay day. Today Jesus tells
Surely the days of teaching about hell fire and damnation are gone. Surely our ever loving and forgiving God wouldn’t exclude anyone from Heaven. Well according to today’s gospel reading we can’t bet on it! We might imagine Heaven’s gates as big and welcoming, but today we hear that it may instead be a narrow door through which it might be difficult for us to
